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Silverlight 2 has beenreleased. This is the real silverlight release. The release last year 1.0 was just a javascript release and only had one object, the downloader, not even a text input. But now there are real tools like rich ui controls, services support (REST), DLR (C#, Linq, ironpython/ruby) and Sockets which are much needed for games and game platform development.

There are also much better tools at this stage:

Bam. Silverlight 2 is out. There’s the expected stuff, like the final SDK, Expression, and Silverlight tools:

I have done lots of Silverlight initially when 1.0 came out as well as the agency I was working at. We did video players, mini-games, demo apps and even the Halo 3 online manual at silverlight.net. But it wasn’t really ready until now. It still has a long way to go to really be an alternative to Flash but it is capable platform at version 2 for applications, mini-games and video apps for sure. But in the end it just provides competition to make both the Flash/Flex platforms and Silveright compete for developer support.

*drawlogic is authored by Ryan Christensen of *drawlabs and *drawcode, both dedicated to taking ideas to ship doing entertainment focused web, mobile and desktop game and interactive development projects.